IDPC contextualises its most recent period of activities under the light of 15 lessons learnt over our network's fifteen years of existence.

The IDPC membership share insights on progress and setbacks in drug policy reform in 47 countries.

This parallel event to the 30th intersessional meeting of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice explored the gendered impacts of drug control and the carceral system on women’s human rights, and offered some key recommendations for the way forward.

The Harm Reduction Consortium presents the first edition of the Global Drug Policy Index, which documents, measures and compares national-level drug policies against the UN Common Position on drugs.

Singapore must halt Nagaenthran’s execution and commit to ending the cruel practice of killing people in the name of drug control.

IDPC call on the ECDD to consider the profound impacts of legal and policy choices that may be triggered by international scheduling and to take the lessons from past national controls duly into account before taking any further steps towards bringing kratom under international control.

The Cornell Center on Death Penalty Worldwide and HRI highlight trends that characterise the gendered impacts of the implementation of the death penalty for drug offences.

Sandøy et al. reveal young people from wealthier households are more likely to be exempted from prosecution.

Leaked footage of police torture exposes deeply-rooted culture of police abuse in the name of drug-control.